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Article: A city's bid to be 'gene' king: Gritty and gray, South San Francisco is emerging as biotech's anointed hub.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 11, 2002
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Byline: Mark Sappenfield Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. -- Step out of San Francisco International Airport, and this is the first thing you see: No sweeping vistas of the Golden Gate, no view of the Transamerica Pyramid's graceful spike with Telegraph Hill beyond.
Rather, there are only warehouses, the car-choked expanse of Highway 101, and the hulk of a distant spring-green hill, scored with thin white letters that read: South San Francisco, The Industrial City.
For most of the past century, this city has been the Bay Area's gristle, whether as a turn-of-the-century village of Italian ...